in chrud so

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in ˈxruð so/

Phrase

in chrud so

  1. in this way, thus
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 31c11
      mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimme et comman dessimrecht do chách
      if this is how we will be [lit. ‘if it is (in) this way that we will be’], i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone

Usage notes

This phrase and its parallel form in chruth sin are among the very few times in Old Irish that the dative case is used without a preposition.

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